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<div> The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times had articles on this subject also. <br>
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I wasn't going to write or blog on it because, to me, it was kinda "old news." <br>
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Nevertheleess, I noticed an interesting discrepancy between the CBS News story and the two stories I read. <br>
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Both the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times went into a lot of detail about the political implications. <br>
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Are you sitting down? Check out this little nugget I highlighted in <b>boldfaced type</b> buried in the NYT story: <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17census.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/us/17census.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">The New York Times, Thursday, May
17, 2007 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">New Demographic Racial
Gap Emerges <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">By <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/sam_roberts/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Sam Roberts">SAM ROBERTS</a></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">With
the number of nonwhite Americans above 100 million for the first time,
demographers are identifying an emerging racial generation gap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">That
development may portend a nation split between an older, whiter electorate and
a younger overall population that is more Hispanic, black and Asian and that
presses sometimes competing agendas and priorities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“The
new demographic divide has broader implications for social programs and
education spending for youth,” said Mark Mather, deputy director of domestic
programs for the Population Reference Bureau, a nonpartisan research group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“There’s
a fairly large homogenous population 60 and older that may not be sympathetic
to the needs of a diverse youthful population,” Dr. Mather said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><font size="4">Dr.
Mather said the three most homogeneous states — Maine, Vermont and West
Virginia — spent the highest proportion of their gross state product on public
education.</font></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">“There
does seem to be a correlation,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">John
B. Diamond, a professor of education at Harvard, said that “there are patterns
of school funding that suggest that may be a problem down the line.” But he
also said the impact might be mitigated by two factors. Because of persistent
residential segregation, he said, elderly white voters do not necessarily live
in the same school districts as young members of minorities. And, altruism
aside, older voters may be persuaded that their pensions and other benefits
depend on the income and taxes generated by a better-educated work force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">My wife, Cathy Deppe, almost jumped off her chair when she read that one. Maine, Vermont and West Virginia spent the highest proportion of their gross state product on public education. <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Wow! <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Please note that those three are NOT rich states like Connecticut, New York, and California. <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Paul Krugman wrote a commentary in the New York Times:</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tragedy in Black and White</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">by Paul Krugman <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">New York Times, September 19, 2005</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And who can honestly deny that race
is a major reason America treats its poor more harshly than any other
advanced country? To put it crudely: a middle-class European, thinking
about the poor, says to himself, "There but for the grace of God go I."
A middle-class American is all too likely to think, perhaps without
admitting it to himself, "Why should I be taxed to support those
people?"</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So true! So sad, but true. <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We can work around it by appealing to the "better angels" of our nature, but that's just never gonna happen screwing around with Democrats and Republicans and their openly racist politics. <br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alex Walker <br>
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